Yeats as Precursor: Readings in Irish, British and American Poetry (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333711477)

As both a late Romantic and a modern, W.B. Yeats has proved to be perhaps the most influential poet of the early twentieth-century. In this original study Steven Matthews traces, through close readings of significant poems, the flow of Yeatsian influence across time and cultural space. By engaging with the formalist criticism of Harold Bloom and Paul de Man in their dialogues with Jacques Derrida, he also considers Yeats's significance as the founding presence within the major poetry criticism of the century.

Author: S. Matthews
ISBN-10: 0333711475
ISBN-13: 9780333711477
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/27/2000
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d